Title Vital strife : sleep, insomnia, and the early modern ethics of care / Benjamin Parris

Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) Contents Heavy with care : sleep and ethical life from ancient Greece to early modern England -- Hercules asleep : stoic oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens -- "The body is with the king, but the king Is not with the body" : sovereign sleep in the tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear -- "Watching to banish care" : sleep and insomnia in The faerie queene -- "Inhabit lax" : insomniac care and the vital virtue of sleep in Paradise lost -- Coda: A vital rationality Summary "Vital Strife is about the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and the early modern ethics of care in works of 16th and 17th-century drama, poetry, and philosophy."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2022) Subject Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism. Literature, Modern -- 17th century -- History and criticism Sleep in literature. Sleep -- Philosophy LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- 16th century . Literature, Modern Sleep in literature Literature: history & criticism. Philosophy of mind. Literature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2022003212 ISBN 9781501764516 1501764519 9781501764523 1501764527

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